Laboring class ??

Assalamualaikum.

This time cik nak kongsi kisah cik attend laboring class before Little Hana lahir dulu. Kelas ni free sebab tu cik semangat nak pergi hehe. Kyushu Medical Center is the name of the hospital cik ulang alik dok wat pregnancy check up. Perjalanan ke sana hanya memakan masa lebih kurang 30 minit sahaja daripada rumah cik.

Apabila sampai sahaja, cik memilih seat yang berkenan di jiwa cik ( maklumla pakai tudung, dok depan tengah-tengah sekali karang, orang dok fokus kat cik pulak kan ). Ada 6 seat untuk satu group, and there were about 8 groups overall.

Agenda pertama is ucapan daripada midwife yang memperkenalkan diri dan juga staff-staff yang lain.Disusuli oleh  ucapan daripada ketua doctor pakar sakit puan di hospital ini. Kemudian program diteruskan dengan taaruf ( cececeh ) dalam kumpulan masing-masing. So, bile dah introduce diri masing-masing tu, cik adalah ibu termuda dan di antara yang due date nye is soon ( 2/3 weeks lagi ) dalam group itu. Some of them sudah berusia 30-an n having their first child. Maknanya, Japanese kahwin lambat is not a big deal for them. Anyway, having 1 child in their family is like enough already. Maybe sebab kos nak sekolahkan anak-anak tinggi kat Jepun ni.

After that,  kami diberi kuiz iaitu menyusun kronologi proses melahirkan anak. Daripada keluar tanda, contraction rhythm, air ketuban pecah,kelahiran anak, sampai la uri ditarik keluar. At that that barula cik tau..bukan ade satu sahaja kronologi semasa proses ini berlaku. Kadang-kadang ade orang yang tak keluar tanda or contraction boleh  berlaku before or after air ketuban pecah . Naruhodo ne ...

And then, program diteruskan dengan tontonan video. Bagaimana kronologi tadi tu ditunjukkan secara lakonan oleh staff-staff midwife dalam video tersebut. Bertambahla kefahaman cik apabila menonton video ni. Kami juga diajar cara pernafasan yang elok dilakukan semasa contraction berlaku termasuk semasa hendak melahirakan baby. Umm lain sikit la dengan apa yang cik nampak kat tv/ imagine..Jadi it was a new thing to learn too.

Disamping itu, those midwifes ajar sekali cara-cara mengurut badan si ibu apabila sedang mengharungi contraction. Memandangkan cik pergi sorang je time tu, jadi adela sorang midwife yang mengurut cik .Sedap nyee ..terima kasih cik midwife!.Aha after that, lampu dewan tu ditutup... Kami disuruh tutup mata...and then, midwife tu suruh kami bayangkan macam mana diri kami menghadapi situasi apabila anak nak lahir soon. Suasana yang sunyi, gelap.. midwife tu seakan bercerita daripada awal tanda keluar sampai la kelahiran baby. Masa tu, dalam kepala cik ni dok imagine apa yang midwife tu cerita..Seronok sangat sampai menitis air mata ni. Syahdu je...Bila lampu buka, cepat-cepat kesat air mata..rupanya bukan air mata cik sorang je yang mengalir.

After that, kami dibawa melawat ke wad bersalin. Kat situ kami dibawa masuk ke bilik menunggu bersalin, bilik bersalin, bilik mandi baby and sekitar wad. Time tu cik rasa memang dah tak sabar nak bersalin...

Alhamdulillah, cik rasa bersyukur sangat dapat attend kelas ni. My thinking about delivering baby memang 180 degree berubah ceceecceh. Yela, before that, cik memang cuak, banyak sangat tak faham sebab asik dengar orang cerita. Lepas attend kelas ni, cik rasa tenang sikit dan tak sabar-sabar nak melahirkan junior cik yang asik dok menendang dalam perut time tu.  Baru cik faham macam mana baby keluar daripada perut si ibu (baby actually berpusing ooo masa lalu kat pintu bawah tu). 

Cik pulang daripada hospital tu dengan semangat yang baru menanti junior cik yang sikit lagi dapat cik jumpa.

Fruit tart

Sejak Little Hana lahir, when it comes to the 12th day every months, cik akan buat something konon2 nak celebrate birthday die. This fruit tart cik buat masa die nye 3 bulan birtmonth hehehe. First time buat tart, alhamdulillah tak mengecewakan. Tang nak wat kulit tart tu je yg makan masa sket. Tapi berbaloi2 la...enak dong!

 Ingredients

( Tart)

• Butter ... 80g  (suhu bilik)
• Tepung ... 140g ( diayak)
• Gula icing ... 40g
• Kuning telur ... 1 biji
• Susu segar .. 1 ts 

( Custard cream )

• 2 sudu besar tepung custard
• 4 sudu besar gula
• 200cc susu segar
• 1 biji telur
• 1 sudu besar mentega

(Hiasan)

• Buah-buahan (strawberi, kiwi, blue berry etc)

Method

(Tart)

1. Pukul butter dgn speed yang tinggi sehingga jd krim.
2. Masukkan gula icing dan pukul lagi.
3. Satukan kuning telur dan susu segar, kemudian masukkan ke dalam adunan. Pukul lagi.
4. Masukkan tepung dan gaul menggunakan spatula.Gaul sehingga menjadi doh.
5. Simpan doh di dalam peti sejuk lebih kurang 30 min.
6. Keluarkan doh. Tabur sedikit tepung pada papan uli dan canaikan doh.
7. Letakkan doh yang sudah dicanai ke bekas pembakar. Cucuk2 garfu pada permukaannya.
8. Bakar pada oven yang sudah di pre-heat 200 deg selama 25 minit (or sampai permukaan nampak garing).

 ( Custard cream )

1. Masukkan tepung dan gula ke dalam periuk kecil. Masukkan 1-2 sudu besar susu. Kacau jangan ada yang berketul.
2. Masukkan telur dan kacau lagi. Kemudian masukkan susu yang selebihnya dan kacau.
3. Panaskan atas api kecil sehingga pekat.
4. Bila dah siap, masukkan mentega. Kacau sebati.

Apabila kulit tart dah sejuk, letakkan custard cream dan hias dengan buah-buahan pilihan. Sejukkan dan sedia untuk dimakan.

Dah cuba ?? Amacam ??

How much does it costs?

Cik nak share my own experience pasal kisah melahirkan anak kat bumi Jepun ni. Kat sini, setiap ibu akan terima 420k yen (dalam RM15-16k) untuk membiayai kos hospital semasa melahirkan anak nanti. So terpulang kepada si ibu untuk memilih hospital yang berkenan di hati, samada hospital kerajaan or swasta. Macam kat Malaysia, of course swasta lebih tinggi kos nya.

In my case, I choose untuk melahirkan anak di hospital kerajaan. Kos yang perlu dibayar ngam2 je ngan duit kerajaan Jepun bagi ni which means, cik beranak free  je .. Kos tu termasukla, bab2 labouring, kos tinggal di hospital for 6 days, kelengkapan baby ( cik tak perlu sediakan apa2 for the baby sepanjang tinggal kt wad like pampers,baju etc) ,kos ubat2 yg cik terima for that 6 days, and also kos rawatan+check up after beranak.

Some of my friends, ada yang beranak kat hospital swasta. In that case, kene bayar lebih sket .. tapi of course tiptop la service nye. 5star okkey.. Ade jugak yang pilih hospital which costs less than mine. Contohnye, total cost is 300k yen, so lebihan duit kerajaan yang diterima tu akan menjadi milik mereka huhuhu (almost 100k yen @ RM 4k). Syok2...

Ape pun yang cik nak sampaikan kat sini is how kerajaan Jepun menjaga warga mereka. Mula-mula memang cik risau juga pasal kos nak beranak kat sini, tapi lega yang teramat la bile kemudahan like this diberikan tanpa mengira samada cik ni warganegara mereka or not. Well, in case cik tak nak beranak kat Japan pon , cik tetap BISA menerima wang yang berjumlah 420k yen tersebut . Itulah kenyataan nya ..

Duit is not everything ...yes it is true..But zaman sekarang ni, siapa yang tak happy dpt duit yang halal kan? Maklumla sana sini mahal sekarang, dont you think so?

Tori no Kara Age, Norai style

So whats for dinner??

Jom try one of Japanese famous and easy dish. Ala2 ayam goreng kalo kat Malaysia. Terasa moist chicken tu bile makan yumm2.

Ingredients

• Boneless chicken -  2,3 pieces
• Syouyu (soy sauce)* - 2 spoon
• ginger* - 1inches, cincang halus
• black pepper* - 1 spoon (nak tambah or kurangkan its ok)
• minyak bijan *- 1 spoon
• egg - half
• katakuriko (potato stratch) - 4 spoon

Method

1. Potong ayam  tak kecil, tak besar. Cun2 masuk mulut bile makan.
2. Perap ayam with ingredients bertanda * about 15 minutes.Lagi lama, lagi sedap.
3. Pukul telur sikit, campurkan ke dalam perapan. Campurkan katakuriko sekali.
4. Goreng dalam minyak panas dan banyak, kasi tenggelam.
5. Sedap makan nehhh..

Selamat Mencuba...

Dah try?? amacam?

Peanut Butter Choc Chip Cookies

Sedap pulak nak nguyah2 cookies. Lets try this awesome cookies. It is a soft cookies that you can not just resist.

Peanut butter choc chip cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 170 degrees C.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, peanut butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each. Combine the flour and baking soda; stir into the peanut butter mixture. Mix in chocolate chips. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
3. Bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly browned at the edges. Allow cookies to cool on the cookie sheets for a minute before removing to wire racks to cool completely. 

dapat la sebalang...

Once I knew I was expecting..

Alhamdulillah...rasa semangat menulis blog ni harap2 berpanjangan la ye. This time I want to share about my experience when I was pregnant in Japan. Oh before that, let me introduce my beloved junior Little Hana. She is now nearly 5 months old.

Little Hana

After went to a doctor to confirm my pregnancy, in Japan, we are suppose to go to the pejabat daerah nearly to our house. I dont know if we have to do the same in Malaysia. Tujuan ke sana is untuk mendapatkn 母子手帳 [ boushitecyou] which means Maternal and Child Health Book. 

This book is given to you once you knew you are pregnant and it is free. It is for recording everything about si ibu mengandung everytime check up and also about the child since she was born sampaila umur die 7 thn nanti regarding health and development. So everything about Little Hana since she was as small as seed sampai la nak masuk darjah 1 nanti will be recorded in this book.

I just wish there is this kind of book that my mom has to hand me. I imagine myself and Hana sitting on a couch and mengimbas kembali all the memories cececeh sambil menyelak helaian2 in the book. Japan teaches me to manage my baby even before she was born. Everything is being recorded and can be referred to anytime.

Also, I did not just received the boushiteicyou book but every expecting parents received a book of coupon. So most of the time when I went for baby check up I did not have to pay anything because these coupons pay all the bills. This also one way the government helps their citizens. "Pregnancy is not a disease. So you don't have to pay for the treatment you get" was what the pejabat daerah staff told me. This really helped me a lot since at that time my husband did not receive his scholarship yet.

There was also a coupon for the pregnant mothers to have the dental check up. So I can go to any selected dental clinic and just pay 500yen (maybe around rm20) to have my teeth all checked. Without those coupons I can not imagine how much I will spend for all the treatment I get along my pregnancy. 

Please share your story too cause I would love to know!! See you in the next post :)

It was such a looooongggg time

Assalamualaikum....

wah adudududuhhhhh...lama benar aku meninggalkan dunia blog ini ya. It's nearly one year O my Allah....I stopped right after I knew I was pregnant because I was having such a bad morning sickness [it was not just in the morning though]. Now I am here again ready to take the challenge of blogging cececeh and I hope I can continue this time.

I really like to share with you about the life I am having now..its the MOTHERHOOD. So, please keep following me..InsyaAllah we can share many good things and also I would like to learn from my followers too especially about this new world I am entering to.

InsyaAllah I will post more but this is just for now that I am letting you know, I'M BACK!!